Screwtape on Redefining ‘Realism’

“Your patient, properly handled, will have no difficulty in regarding his emotion at the sight of human entrails as a revelation of Reality and his emotion at the sight of happy children or fair weather as mere sentiment.”
— E. Stephen Burnett —

What Makes Fantasy Work? Part 1

Readers love Narnia and Lord of the Rings, and they love a handful of later fantasies. But a lot of stories don’t go viral, don’t get hundreds of reviews, and in fact get tepid responses. So what makes fantasy work?
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —

What Makes Fantasy Work? Part 2

I hope our readers here at Spec Faith are thinking about the Christian speculative novel–fantasy, science fiction, supernatural, or whatever–they would like to nominate for the Clive Staples Award. Let’s find the books that work and pick the best of the lot to honor.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —

The Stories That Matter

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. . . . Those were the stories that stayed with you.” ~ Samwise Gamgee
— Gillian Bronte Adams —

World-building: The Undervalued Element Of Speculative Fiction

Books that transport me somewhere else have a dense culture filled with rituals, slang, moral right and wrong, tradition, art, entertainment, bureaucracy, and so much more.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —

Word Vs. Image, Part 2

Brian Godawa: Would conservatives scold Jesus for sharing confusing stories instead of tightly organized three-point sermons?
— Brian Godawa —

Christian Speculative Fiction And Intellectual Rigor

There is power in stories. Stories help us to see truth through someone else’s eyes rather than through our own biased view. Through stories we can get to Truth by seeing past our own version of truth.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —

The Continued Search For The Next C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s fiction did not spring to life in a vacuum, nor did it germinate exclusively from the fertile soil of his own imagination. Rather, he read widely, studied profusely, and spent hours discussing literature and theology with other scholars.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —

Because God Says So

In some small part, I think Christian writers have the responsibility to dispel the objection that says says “reality” doesn’t verify belief in the “fairy tale” ending, and to demonstrate the way the world really works.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —
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